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Not identifying TV Seasons - Apollo Grace - 2025-07-12
Hi folks - I'm trying to settle in as a new user. I've got a substantial collection of classic and new Doctor Who episodes; when I first scanned them, it was mixing up the old and new series, even though my top-level names for them were "Doctor Who (1963)" and "Doctor Who (2005)". I added the IMDB ids, and that seems to be sorted; but now it's showing me the show without season identifiers, and in pretty much random order. Here are three seasons:
The numbers on each season indicate that this is a sequence of a 1960s season, a 1980s season, then another 1960s season. I wonder what I'm doing wrong, that the season numbers aren't showing up or being sorted?
My file paths are all of this form:
Doctor Who (1963) [tt0056751]/Season 18/Doctor Who s18e09 Full Circle.avi
And I added the "Doctor Who (1963) [tt0056751]" folder to the newly created media library.
Thanks for any clues more experienced users might be able to provide.
-Apollo
RE: Not identifying TV Seasons - alleycat - 2025-07-12
(2025-07-12, 08:56 AM)Apollo Grace Wrote: My file paths are all of this form:
Doctor Who (1963) [tt0056751]/Season 18/Doctor Who s18e09 Full Circle.avi
And I added the "Doctor Who (1963) [tt0056751]" folder to the newly created media library.
Thanks for any clues more experienced users might be able to provide.
-Apollo
I have my shows setup this way per the documentation, you might try this:
"Movies and show series can be named with a metadata provider ID to improve matching. They can be added to a file name in the following format:
- [imdbid-tt12345678]
- [tmdbid-12345]
- [tvdbid-67890]
The following metadata providers are supported:
IMDb Service (IMDb) [imdbid-ttxxxxxxxx]
TheMovieDB (TMDB) [tmdbid-xxxxxxx]
TheTVDB (TVDB) (Shows Only) [tvdbid-xxxxxxx]"
In your case try the separate folder naming with the service id tag included with the id number:
Doctor Who (1963) [imdbid-tt0056751]
RE: Not identifying TV Seasons - theguymadmax - 2025-07-12
(2025-07-12, 08:56 AM)Apollo Grace Wrote: And I added the "Doctor Who (1963) [tt0056751]" folder to the newly created media library.
Make sure you aren't adding individual folder paths to the library; there needs to be a parent directory.
Series Library:
Shows\
Doctor Who (1963) [tmdbid-121]\
Season 01\
S01E01.mkv
Season 02\
S02E01.mkv